2012 Editors' Choice Road Bike Winners

2012 Editors’ Choice Recreational: Cannondale CAAD10 4 Rival

7 / 8

Affordable, but still speedy

It would be easy to cast the Cannondale’s win into an aluminum-beats-carbon bar-stool argument, but that would be missing the point. The CAAD10 won simply because it’s the best-riding, most well-rounded bike for the money. When the pace increased, the CAAD10 was the fastest to respond to changes in tempo.